Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.